190: Dr. Michael Gervais - Finding Mastery • How To Train Optimism • Pain Is Necessary For Change
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Michael Gervais is a High-Performance Psychologist with over 20 years’ experience working in high-stakes environments with some of the top athletes, musicians, and executives, in the world.
Sharing the training and mindset skills of “the best of the best,” Michael can help anyone experience high performance in their own lives.
He is known for his work with the Super Bowl winning Seattle Seahawks and has appeared on Tim Ferris’ Fear{less} and has been featured in The NY Times, Forbes, and Sports Illustrated.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What life was like growing up with hippie parents
- Rebelling as a kid can be valuable
- There's a naiveté that can come from living out in the sticks
- Thinking about what is going wrong vs what you want to happen
- The more present we become the more we're able to experience in life
- The old 7pm is the new midnight
- The new threat for our ancient brain... what other people think about us
- Embrace our DNA and then override parts of it that are no longer working
- Optimal daily dose of mindfulness or meditation
- We learn to be optimistic or pessimistic
- How to train optimism
- How do we begin to build confidence and a stronger sense of self
- The three things we can train, as humans
- Running to the edge of instability on a daily basis is a requirement for growth
- Pain is necessary to make fundamental changes
- Look forward to being uncomfortable because that's when the good stuff is taking place
- A sixty second exercise to wake up your mind and spirit, in the morning
- Imagery is about all of your senses
- Finding out who your true self is and living from that place
- You don't have to entertain your negative thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | It's that classic engineer model of looking for the signal to noise ratio. |
| 0:05.3 | And I would suggest that you do something in the morning that gets you closer connected to signal. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 190. |
| 0:25.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your |
| 0:30.4 | health to the next level. This week our featured guest is Dr Michael Jervay. |
| 0:34.9 | He's a high performance psychologist with over 20 years of experience working in high stakes |
| 0:40.2 | environments with some of the top athletes, musicians, and |
| 0:43.4 | executives in the world. Sharing the training and mindset skills are the best of the |
| 0:47.6 | best, Michael can help anyone experience high performance in their own lives. |
| 0:51.4 | He is known for his work with the Super Bowl |
| 0:53.7 | winning Seattle Seahawks and has appeared on Tim Ferris' Fearless and has been featured |
| 0:58.9 | in the New York Times, Forbes and Sports Illustrated. |
| 1:02.2 | What I love about this episode is we're bringing you guys a very different kind of conversation |
| 1:06.8 | and something everyone can benefit from, whether you're an athlete or not. |
| 1:10.3 | So much goodness was talked about in today's episode. Here's some of the |
| 1:13.4 | highlights. We get into how to train optimism. How do we begin to build confidence in a |
| 1:18.5 | stronger sense of self? Pain is necessary to make fundamental changes, a 60 second exercise to wake up your mind and spirit, |
| 1:26.4 | and we also get into how you don't have to entertain your negative thoughts. |
| 1:30.4 | So much great information, so excited to get into it. Here we go with Dr Michael Jervay. |
| 1:35.0 | Hi Michael, how are you? We're so pleased to have you on the show today. |
| 1:38.0 | Thanks for having me. Really looking forward to this conversation and thank you for including me in your community. |
| 1:44.0 | Michael, it's so great to have you on the show and to kick off I actually want to go back to your childhood. |
| 1:49.6 | You talk about your parents being hippie, so let's talk about what was life like growing up with hippie parents? |
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